 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...from pain, and poverty, and difeafe. It is an inftindt ; and under the direction of reafon, inftinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have fucceeded me are gone before me. They who mould have been to me as pofterity are in the place of anceftors.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 446 pages
...from pain, and poverty, and difeafe. It is an inftinct; and under the direction, of reafon, inftinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have fucceeded me are gone before me. They who f hould have been to me as pofterity are in the place of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...from pain, and poverty, and difeafe. It is an inftincl:; and under the direction of reafon, inftincl: is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have fucceeded me are gone before me. They who Ihould have been to me as pofterity are in the place of anceftors.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...the natural affections. i We are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...affections. * * * * * * * * We are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and...of ancestors. I owe to the dearest relation (which evermust subsist in memory) that act of piety, which he would have performed to me ; I owe it to him... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 540 pages
...are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and...right. I live in an inverted order.' They who ought F to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...are at their ease. But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and under the direction of reason, in-. stinct is always in the right. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...son, โ one of the most painful of literary offices, that reminds us of Burke's touching words โ "I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded ัะต are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in theplace of ancestors."... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...affections. * * * * 149 We are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain, and poverty, and disease. It is an instinct ; and...direction of reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory... | |
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I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me; they who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors. 
